Terri Leo-Wilson

"Moving to the beach is something I had always wanted to do."

"I’d go down to my little beach house every chance I could and spent my summers there with my kids,."

"We love looking out at this view."

"We love the coastal vibe and we love the history here in Galveston."

"There’s so many things to do from rallies to great restaurants."

"We are just very happy to have made the move."

"My daughters tease me about my shrine to them."

"I can’t buy another item for this house, I already have everything I need."

"My daughters all grew up to be minimalists unlike myself."

"I took them with me on my garage sale runs, I guess they had enough of it."

"It just was the way things were."

"We watched the news, and I knew my parents cared about politics, but you just didn’t speak out loud where you stood politically."

"I’ve always had a really strong sense of justice."

"I stood up for the person being bullied back when I was little."

"You don’t have true representation without fair elections."

"If we don’t have free and fair elections, then we’ve lost our nation."

"I think we can move to a consumption tax over a 10 -year period and phase out property taxes and appraisal boards need to be elected not appointed."

"Give the elected body the authority to write content standards for textbooks."

"The State Board of Education has authority over curriculum, but they don’t any longer have authority over the content in instructional materials."

"The curriculum is what every student must know at the end of each grade level."

"The board still writes those, and we have fairly good, sound standards."

"But the piece that was lost under Senate Bill 6, which took full effect in 2011."

"Is the piece that governed over instructional materials."

"Elected board members are beholden to the voters, unlike bureaucratic state agency employees."

"Parents know what’s best for their children’s educational needs, and it’s important that we empower their elected SBOE representatives, not textbook publishers who are beholden to other interests."

"When I was on the board, The Wall Street Journal actually ran an article that said the ‘little-known’ State Board of Education in Texas was the most influential board in the United States."

"They were motivated in the end by money."

"They worked with the majority of the board when things were wrong in their textbooks."

"Therein lies the problem."

"I’ve written this legislation before."

"I’ve tried to get it passed as a citizen, and now I’m trying to get it passed as a legislator."

"When they write bills over here in the House that affect curriculum, but they don’t affect instructional materials, you’ve got a problem."

"That’s where we’re at.”"